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PET PROTECTION
across the yard towards them.
“Hello! Are you wanting to look at the animals? A
dog, maybe?” She sounded really hopeful, and Emily wished so much that they were.
“No, um...” She took a deep, gasping breath and gave Maya a panicky look, who nodded enthusiastically. “I was wondering if you needed any help? I live quite close, and I love dogs, and cats too. I could come after school, maybe, or at the weekend?”
“Oh...” The lady looked at her consideringly, and Emily was glad that she’d brought clothes to change into at Maya’s house, sensible clothes that looked quite like what the lady from the shelter was wearing, except cleaner. Maya had put a sparkly top on (practically everything she owned was sparkly apart from her school uniform, Emily reckoned), but Emily had suggested she needed a hoodie on over the top, so most of it was hidden. She looked like a reasonably sensible friend for someone who wanted a volunteer job at an animal shelter.
“What’s your name?” the lady asked.
“Emily. Emily Harris. And this is Maya.”
“I’m Maya’s dad, Tom Knight,” Maya’s dad
added, holding out his hand for the lady to shake, 17